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Dear all,
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please find below the call for a PhD position in Aarhus, Denmark. The project allows a historical approach and can be therefore of interest for some on the list.
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Please feel free to distribute. If you have direct questions do not hesitate to contact me.
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Best regards
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Timo
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PhD position for the project “Rooting agility: Origins, conceptualisations and practices in and beyond project management”
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The Center for STS studies and the Center for IT Project Management and Innovation offers a PhD scholarship/fellowship in the field of project management (PM) and science-technology studies (STS).
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The aim of the position is to research the evolution of the concept of agility. Originating mainly as a project management methodology, in particular in IT development projects, the concept has experienced a strong push in recent years, even into other areas beyond business, like for example politics. During this process the concept and particular its use and related practices have experienced a significant broadening. Addressing this, the project firstly aims at identifying and analysing the different roots of the agile concept and its methods/practices and tools, which existed even before its emergence in IT development during the 1990s. Secondly, the subsequent development of the key concept as well as their practices and tools should be explored, e.g. through qualitative studies of agility in practice. In particular, it is of interest how the different methodologies became of importance in project management and how they related to each other. This might also include its interrelations and interdependencies with other trends such as f. e. digitalization. Finally, it should be analysed how the concept emerged from the IT domain again and entered other areas of application in business as well as in society. The overall aim is to generate insights into the conceptualisation of agility, the practices of it including methodologies and tools as well how it relates to other contemporary developments.
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Applicants should have knowledge of at least one of the fields of project management, history of science/technology, Science-Technology-Studies, anthropology or design. This also requires a good acquaintance to qualitative methods such as interviews, document analysis or similar from fields like for example historical research, action research or ethnographic fieldwork.
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Deadline for application: October 1st, 2022
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All further information including application guidelines, contact etc. can be found here: <a href="https://phd.arts.au.dk/applicants/open-and-specific-calls/phd-call-2022-7">https://phd.arts.au.dk/applicants/open-and-specific-calls/phd-call-2022-7</a>
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